ment of Defense. This extensive training function would indicate that a portion of the expenditures could be regarded as Federal funds for education. Remaining portions are expended for noneducational items, such as subsistence, materials, equipment, and payments for past wars.

Further analysis would suggest that some of the training should be revalued for its adaptability to civilian life before expenditures are regarded as funds for education. Much of the training may have only limited use in peacetime. For instance, how useful is the certification "expert in demolition" recorded on the discharge papers of a college graduate after 3 years in the military service? By contrast, some of the educational work conducted by the Department of Defense and offered to military personnel has educational value in preparing for the occupations, industries, offices, and the professions. Such training may be useful to dischargees in normal peacetime work.

Federal funds expended in giving basic or specialized military training to all recruits are not reported here. However, portions expended in providing academic training of personnel at civilian schools and service academies have been summarized and are presented in table 31, for recent years. These funds are expended to improve the effectiveness of military personnel and a significant portion of such training continues to be useful to dischargees in later occupational pursuits.

In addition to these programs in the civilian schools and service academies the Department of Defense expends large amounts for research and development. Total figures for these research programs are given in table 1. However, no detailed figures are presented in this section because of the difficulties of separating these items from the total Defense budget and partly because details are considered to be restricted information.

Table 31.-FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR ACADEMIC TRAINING OF MILITARY PERSONNEL AT CIVILIAN SCHOOLS AND SERVICE ACADEMIES, 1946-47-1949-50 1 2

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Programs of education for many thousands of children are planned. or administered by the Department of the Interior. Children include Indians in the United States and Alaska, natives in Alaska and the Virgin Islands, and many groups of children in the United States who reside on or near federally owned lands such as reclamation projects and military installations.

EDUCATION OF INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES

All public and private inquiries into the status of Indians in the United States agree on the necessity for more education. The Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for 1949 stated that 19,375 Indian children are completely without school facilities. Probably one of the worst situations with regard to education is to be found on the Navajo Reservation in the States of Arizona and New Mexico where three-fourths of the school-age population, or about 15,000 children, do not attend school.

Educational programs are arranged in 25 States for a total of approximately 67,000 Indian children. Enrollment figures indicate that 31,927 are attending public schools near their homes, 7,813 are in mission boarding schools and private schools, and 27,252 are enrolled in Federal boarding schools.

Many Indian children attending public schools live on nontaxable Indian lands in districts with limited resources. The Federal Government assists these districts financially, through contracts with the State departments of education. During the last few years, contracts have been made with 13 States. In 1949, the number of Indian children provided education under these contracts was 20,637. EDUCATION IN ALASKA AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

It is estimated that there are 10,457 children of school age in Alaska of whom 2,700 are in Territorial public schools, 5,195 are in three Federal boarding and 91 day schools, about 600 are in private and mission schools, and almost 2,000 are without local school facilities.

Amounts of Federal Government funds expended in recent years for education of the Indians in the United States, for natives and Indians in Alaska, and for natives in the Virgin Islands are reported in tables 32, 33, and 34, respectively.

In addition to the amounts listed in table 32, $9,390 was appropriated for the tuition of Indian students attending institutions of higher education and trade schools for the 1949-50 school year.

Table 32.-FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED TO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1941-42-1949-501

Table 33.-FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR THE EDUCATION OF NATIVES IN ALASKA, 1942-43-1949-50 1

Table 34.-FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR EDUCATION IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, 1942-43-1949-50 1

SCHOOL ASSISTANCE AT FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROJECTS

The act of June 29, 1948 (80th Cong.) referred to as Public Law 835, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to make such provision as may be deemed necessary and in the public interest for the education of dependents of persons employed on the actual construction of Federal Reclamation projects when it is found that by reason of such construction activity an undue burden is or will be cast upon the facilities of the public-school district serving the area in which the construction

is being undertaken. Assistance under cooperative arrangements may include contributions toward covering the cost of educational services required, for the operation by the school district of Government facilities, or for the expansion of local facilities.

The act of May 14, 1948, referred to as Public Law 528, authorized for the fiscal years 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1951 payments not to exceed $65 per semester per pupil to the Boulder City School District, as reimbursement for the actual cost of instruction of pupils who are dependents of any employee of the United States living in the immediate vicinity of Boulder City, Nev.

Total amounts made available during the 1949-50 school year are shown in table 35. As indicated in the table, a part of the funds were for the 1948-49 school year and some of the items are for the 1949-50 school year.

Table 35.-FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR THE EDUCATION OF DEPENDENTS OF PERSONS EMPLOYED AT RECLAMATION PROJECTS, DURING THE 1949-50 SCHOOL YEAR1

Under the terms of a 1934 law, 50 percent of the receipts from each of the national grazing districts is paid to the State in which the grazing land is located. This money may be used as the State legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the subdivisions having such grazing lands within their areas.

In addition, 25 percent of the receipts from each grazing district located on Indian land ceded to the United States for disposition under the public-land laws is paid to the State in which such land is located. These payments are for the benefit of county schools and county roads of the respective counties.

Table 36 lists the amounts paid to the States by the Bureau of Land Management from receipts from grazing lands over the past 12 years. Specific amounts paid to individual States during the 1948-49 school

year are presented in table 37. The Bureau of Land Management has no data on the proportions of these payments which are used by the States and counties for the support of public schools.

Table 36.-FEDERAL PAYMENTS FROM RECEIPTS FOR LEASING GRAZING LANDS, 1937-38-1948-491

1 Data supplied by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.

Table 37.-FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE STATES FROM RECEIPTS FOR LEASING GRAZING LANDS, FOR THE 1948-49 SCHOOL YEAR1

1 Data supplied by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.

REVENUE FROM MINERAL LANDS

In 1920, Congress enacted a law providing that 371⁄2 percent of the receipts from rentals, royalties, and bonuses from mineral lands in the public domain be paid to the States. The provision affects only those States in which such mineral lands are located. Funds paid to the States under this law may be used for the construction and maintenance of roads or for the support of public schools or other public educational institutions as the legislatures of the respective States may direct.

Under this legislation, payments to the States and Territories have amounted to over 54 million dollars during the past 12 years. Payments for each of these school years are shown in table 38.

Amounts paid to each of 22 States and Alaska for the 1948-49 school year are listed in table 39. The Bureau of Land Management